My motive for publishing this little book is to
help students of Materia Medica, by selecting a few of the most
characteristic symptoms of the more prominent remedies.

In my own experience and practice, I am free to
say, this plan of committing to memory such as may be called
"key-note" symptoms, and associating them in my mind with the
medicines to which they belong, has been the - chief source of such
success as I may have had in curing the sick.

The students in the college class are required to
thus commit them ;
and as a result it is rare that a majority of each graduating class does
not promptly select the right remedy for a given case in the medical
clinic.

The possession, in a useful shape in their minds,
of thus much positive and valuable knowledge gives them a good start and
needed courage.

A very large proportion of the symptoms herein
given I have myself verified. The remainder are given on good authority.

No claim is made of originality, not even of
expression. I have given the symptoms very often in the language of the
authors from whose works they have been selected.

W. J. H.

Aconit

Aconitum Napellus. Wolfsbane.

Monkshood.

Friarcap.

Central Europe.

Fresh Plant Tincture.

Terrible anguish, with fear of death

;
predicts the day she is to die.

He is afraid to go out, or to go where there are
many people, or to cross a street

;
his life is rendered miserable by this all-pervading fearfulness.

Croupy cough

;
awaking after first sleep ;
particularly in young people after exposure to dry west winds.

Blood-spitting

;
the blood comes up with an easy hawking, or with but little coughing ;
after mental excitement or exposure to dry west winds.

Irregular intermission of the beating of the heart
and pulse, especially when lying on left side.

When the throat and neck of children emaciate
rapidly, particularly during summer complaint.

Headache as if bursting

;
beating, or stitches through to the neck and chest ;
with heat in head, red face, nausea and vomiting before, during and
after catamenia, or during the fever stage, decreasing gradually after
the sweat.

Hang nails

;
the skin around the nails dry and cracked.

After all kinds of cauterizations with nitrate of
silver.

After bodily exertion an itching nettle-rash
appears.

Frequent dreams of robbers in the house, and on
awakening will not believe the contrary till search is made.

Losing flesh while living well.

Blisters like pearl upon the lips in intermittent
fever.

Constipation, with sensation of contraction of the
anus

;
difficult expulsion of stool ;
fissuring the anus, with flow of blood leaving a sensation of more
soreness in the anus.